Ancient Greeks
- Greeks had many new ideas
- created incredible art forms
- created democratic government with citizen participation
- innovators in warfare
- different ways of going into war
- 4000 BC- farming and village life spread from Sumerian and Egyptian lands
- 3500 BC- constructed megaliths to make monuments and tombs
- people think aliens lifted the 50 tons stones
- 2500 BC- European nomads migrated from the steppes in eastern Europe
- there language evolved into Greek and Latin
- there lives centered around strength and courage
- tribes were groups of people who are grouped together on what they have in common
- gave there gods human characteristics
- tribes were headed by kings/warlords
- good at trading and warfare
- ancient Greeks were nomads but didn't have starvation problems because they were good at farming, hunting, and fighting
- Greeks were barbarians
- adopted the way of life of other tribes
- they were the beginning of western civilization
- further developed than people in the middle ages
- Greeks lived on a mountainous peninsula
- only people who had olives
- location shaped culture
- poor natural resources
- 20% was suitable for farming
- healthy diet- grains, grapes, olives
- lack of resources most likely led to Greek colonization
- warm temperature- 48 in the winter to 80 in the summer
- invented the Olympics because they were competitive
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